At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of revolutionary opinions.

The term Karankawa has been popularly applied to a group of Native American tribes who had a common dialect and culture.

The term "horn" is also popularly applied to other hard and pointed features attached to the head of animals in various other families:

In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.

The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoininhg.

The term "sean-nós" is popularly applied to songs in English and Irish.

Drip marketing is popularly applied as a sales tool, particularly in long sales-cycles (large ticket items or enterprise-level sales).

The method is popularly applied to problems in bioinorganic chemistry, materials science, and geophysics.

The term is popularly applied to the material on the surface of the Earth's moon and Mars, a usage acceptable within a portion of the scientific community.

At the present time its application is more general, and it is popularly applied to any one of Rajput caste in the Hills.